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Parse firefox session store into a HTML page with links to tabs.
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sessionstore_parse.py
#!/usr/bin/env python
import json, sys
from pprint import pprint
def escape(html):
return html.replace('&', '&amp;').replace('<', '&lt;').replace('>', '&gt;').replace('"', '&quot;')
sessionstore = json.load(open(sys.argv[1],'r'))
sessionstore_windowtabs = map(lambda x: x['tabs'], sessionstore['windows'])
outf = open(sys.argv[2], 'w')
print >>outf, '<html><head><title>Session Restore Tabs</title></head><body>'
windows = 1
for window in sessionstore_windowtabs:
print >>outf, '<h1>Window {}</h1><p><ul>'.format(windows)
windows += 1
for tab in window:
#tab['entries'][:] = [tab['entries'][-1]]
entry = tab['entries'][int(tab.get('index',0))-1] # index is 1-based 'active' index in entries (0-1 = -1 = 'last')
title = escape(entry.get('title','Untitled'))
url = escape(entry.get('url','about:blank'))
print >>outf, u'<li><a href="{url}">{title}</a></li>'.format(title=title, url=url).encode('ascii','xmlcharrefreplace')
print >>outf, '</ul></p>'
print >>outf, '</body></html>'
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